Quote: chocks wrote in post #2HMS Aston Villa sunk off Norway 1940 (Wonder why they never had a HMS Birmingham City)

Sunk without trace I hope. Theirs been about 4 HMS Birminghams I think

Yea! but not Birmingham City eh? During WW2 a series of Fishing Trawlers were taken into service they were called the Football Class there was Derby County, Aston Villa, Glasgow Rangers and West Ham United amongst others but for some reason Birmingham City was never chosen.Aston Villa's wreck is known as you can see from one of my pictures but due to the fact that all the crew lost their lives in the sinking it is now classed as a war grave and diving on her is forbidden

No appologies needed mate. It's only banter and I doubt very much any of the crew supported either City or Villa. As far as I'm aware they were all from the Middlesborough area so I don't suppose any of them would care too much.